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What is emergent?

September 6, 2008 3 Comments

I’ve sat in on the occasional “what is emergent” conversation at various events, and it’s interesting to note that even Publisher’s Weekly is stymied by the term. Marcia Ford, writing in this week’s issue, points to the confusion that the term engenders for publishers and booksellers as much as it does for readers interested in learning more about emerging church, emergent theology and Emergent Village—three terms that are used interchangeably as “emergent.”

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The name game

September 6, 2008 No Comments

Astute readers will notice that your Saturday editor is writing under another name, one which will be familiar to those who know me through Facebook. The name change I’ve been alluding to for months is now official.

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McCain’s chaplaincy

August 30, 2008 No Comments

Newsweek takes a look at John McCain the Vietnam POW chaplain, which McCain describes as being the result a happy accident of his fluency with

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Solar panels may be too hot a commodity

August 30, 2008 No Comments

Who knew that there was a black market for decreasing your carbon footprint? A sophisticated thief or thieves—the crime takes technical skills to execute—has been removing solar panels from various facilities in the San Francisco Bay area. A suspect is thought to have been selling them on e-Bay, according to InsideBayDaily.com.

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The Rev. Certain to give RNC invocation

August 30, 2008 No Comments

The Rev. Robert Certain made headlines in 2006 when he gave a sermon at Gerald Ford’s funeral, saying that one of Ford’s wishes was that we would work toward reconciliation in the church. Certain is in the spotlight again, this time having accepted the invitation to give the invocation at the Republican National Convention.

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Pining for liberal Republicanism

August 30, 2008 1 Comment

Michael McGough, writing in the Opinion section of the L.A. Times, observes that the shift in the Republican party during the past 20 or so years has made a curiosity out of what he calls “liberal Republicans” such as Sens. Arlen Specter and Olympia Snowe. He also notes that such Republicans seem to have a tendency toward being Episcopalians, and dryly observes that there are parallels between the demise of these Republicans politically and what’s happening in the church itself.

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Gearing up for Gustav

August 30, 2008 No Comments

As Gustav looms large in the Gulf of Mexico, churches that remember all too well the marauding of Katrina are preparing to be at the front lines, drawing from lessons learned in the storm of 2005.

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The real challenge of teaching evolution

August 24, 2008 2 Comments

He scanned the faces of the sophomores in his Biology I class. Many of them, he knew from years of teaching high school in this Jacksonville suburb, had been raised to take the biblical creation story as fact. His gaze rested for a moment on Bryce Haas, a football player who attended the 6 a.m. prayer meetings of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes in the school gymnasium. “If I do this wrong,” Mr. Campbell remembers thinking on that humid spring morning, “I’ll lose him.”

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The 2008 Mindset List

August 24, 2008 3 Comments

The class of 2012 has grown up in an era where computers and rapid communication are the norm, and colleges no longer trumpet the fact that residence halls are “wired” and equipped with the latest hardware. These students will hardly recognize the availability of telephones in their rooms since they have seldom utilized landlines during their adolescence.

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The Pope’s scientists

August 24, 2008 No Comments

The lessons learned from the trial and condemnation of Galileo in the 1600s have guided an era of scientific caution and hesi­tancy within the Vatican. Today the Vatican’s approach to science is a complex undertaking involving nearly every facet of Church life. Housed in a building several centuries old deep inside Vatican City, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences is a surprisingly nonreligious institution as well as one of the Vatican’s least understood.

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